Wood and Hardware Selection

We are going to make the humidor in the raised panel style from http://vanderburghhumidors.com/humidor_classic_raised_panel_humidor.html.


















(ChiefHava's custom humidor that sparked my interest for this project)

My father wants to make something out of Curly(tiger) Maple, I was thinking something along the lines of figured Walnut. We have some Waterfall Bubinga as well so maybe something pretty will materialize ;)

I had a nice conversation with Eddie DeJong from @Vanderburgh over twitter last night and he was so awesome as to answer some questions I had about the construction. He also wants pictures when we are finished. How cool is that???

I found the hinges here: http://www.brusso.com/Product/html/item.php?item=JB-804



















I confirmed with Eddie that these were the correct ones. I need to ask him yet if I should use the longer ones here: http://www.brusso.com/Product/html/item.php?item=JB-806 since my lid is going to be 24" accross.




















For the base I am going to use some Blue Pearl granite. Mostly because I have a thing for the color blue... and its awesome looking. Observe: